Nurse Aide

Hudson Regional Hospital•Secaucus, NJ

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves assisting nurses with various patient care duties, ensuring patient safety, comfort, and accurate record-keeping. The Nurse Aide will perform a range of tasks including patient monitoring, personal care, specimen collection, and assisting with patient mobility. Maintaining patient confidentiality and a clean work environment are also key aspects of this position. The role requires effective communication and adherence to established healthcare standards and protocols.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalency
6 months to 1 year experience in a healthcare setting
BLS - AHA approved

Responsibilities

Assist the nurse with various duties as directed, including placing specialty mattresses when applicable.
Perform proper glucose testing and record results accurately and timely.
Participate in the FALLS PREVENTION PROGRAM and identify patients at risk for falls.
Practice wound prevention protocol, proper use of PPE, and maintain Universal Precautions.
Maintain patient confidentiality of patient, facility, and physician-related information, ensuring HIPAA competency and compliance.
Perform and record patient weight, blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturation, and pulse in a timely manner, recording data in the computer.
Administer complete/partial baths, oral care, denture care, hair care, foley care, shaving, and bed making.
Demonstrate knowledge of patient restraints and assure patient safety.
Assist in toileting needs of patients, including assisting to bathrooms, placing bedpans, emptying, recording, and observing patient intake and output accurately, and emptying collection devices (foleys).
Maintain an organized and clean work space and complete assignments in a timely manner.
Perform postpartum care.
Communicate accurately verbally and in writing, maintaining a harmonious work environment with co-workers and staff.
Safely transport patients via wheelchair and/or stretcher.
Answer the phone promptly and courteously.
Transport specimens to the lab and record in the book.
Prepare patients for meals and assist when needed, serving fresh water daily and snacks when needed.
Answer patient call lights promptly, respond to patient needs and inquiries, and provide quality care in a personal manner.
Collect specimens as instructed, including urine, sputum, and stool specimens, ensuring specimen containers are labeled and placed in a biohazard bag.
Position patients, use LYCO lift, transfer patients from bed to chair and reverse, lift patients properly with correct body mechanics to prevent personal injury, assist patients out of bed, and ambulate as needed.
Perform EKGs and document when performed.
Report all abnormal findings to the nurse assigned or charge nurse.
Perform hourly rounding on patients to ensure needs are met and patient safety is upheld.
Notify the nurse assigned when taking breaks or meals.
Perform enemas when assigned.
Manage supplies to avoid bringing excessive supplies into patient rooms.
Act in the role of the patient sitter.
Adhere to standards identified in the Medical Center's Organizational Competencies.
Identify the needs of the patient population served and modify and deliver care specific to those needs (e.g., culture, hearing and/or visually impaired).
Perform all other duties as assigned.